Originally posted about the problems I was having emerging totem-1.4.0 here, but the more I look at it I think this is an arch problem. The totem emerge is failing when it looks for playbin. I have re-emerged liboil with CFLAGS stripped of any optimizations settings, but that hasn't changed anything. I am at wits end now. Anyone have any ideas? When I run "gst-inspect-0.10 playbin" or "gst-inspect-0.10" I get:

Which liboil version are you currently using?
I'm usually the one working on gnome stuff for sparc and didn't have issues with it (current stable, 0.3.6, and with quite aggressive CFLAGS)._________________Gustavo Zacarias
Gentoo/SPARC monkey

rsborn: Hmm, you know I might have used ~x86 to generate the list... This is most definitely a SPARC system (SB100) so using ~x86 would be bad! If you have 0.3.8 keyworded, then just remove it, and emerge -avu world should downgrade it. You could also emerge -C liboil, remove it from your package.keywords list, then emerge -av1 liboil.

gust4voz: I am not using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS for the whole system, just used the snippet on the wiki to generate the list of packages I needed for /etc/portage/packages.keywords. It seemed like this would be much easier than finding out what packages I needed to keyword one-by-one. Should I have not used that method? Of course it might help if the right arch was used...

I have unmerged liboil-0.3.8, removed it from my package.keywords, and now it will pull in liboil-0.3.6. So, I emerge liboil-0.3.6, re-emerged gst-plugins-base and now totem is busy compiling. Yay!

I'd like to try to nail down whether using the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to generate the keywords list is a good way to go about it. But I am happy just to be back in business.